Monday, December 23, 2013

Welcome to ! Throughout this month, we will have daily guests - authors and bloggers alike - looking back at their favorite reads of 2013, and looking forward to events and upcoming books in 2014.

WHO: Kat Kennedy and Steph Sinclair, the awesome duo who run and write about all things YA.

Please give a warm welcome to Steph and Kat, everybody!

STEPHANIE SINCLAIR: It's good to be back at The Book Smugglers. But mostly we're just impressed they invited us back even though Kat almost broken their gumball machine last time.

KAT KENNEDY: Once again, so sorry about that. In my defense, I thought it was one of those "break in case of emergency" situations.

STEPHANIE SINCLAIR: Right. Of course.

KAT KENNEDY: So, what's the plan, Steph?

STEPHANIE SINCLAIR: Well, we're going to play a game called How Well Do you Know Your Co-Blogger. We will guess what each other's favorite books were for the year and predict which ones we'd cut a blogger for in 2014.

STEPHANIE SINCLAIR: I'm looking forward to Winter, which comes out in 2015, but I'm a spoiled blogger who will read it next year. Yes. I will read anything Christa publishes after reading Fault Line.

KAT KENNEDY: Winner's Curse #2.

STEPHANIE SINCLAIR: Oh c'mon!

KAT KENNEDY: Because if we don't mention this series FOUR TIMES in this chat then we're just failing at life.

STEPHANIE SINCLAIR: Hahaha.

KAT KENNEDY: Dreams of Gods and Monsters?

STEPHANIE SINCLAIR: Hell yeah!

KAT KENNEDY: That's all I got.

STEPHANIE SINCLAIR: Not too shabby. I also need the following in my life: Landline by Rainbow Rowell. Complicit by Stephanie Kuehn. The Fill-In Boyfriend by Kasie West (or anything else she decides to write) And probably a bunch more, to be honest. 2014 is shaping up to be awesome.

So let's tally this up.

Hmm

Looks like the winner is

ME!

Wow!

I'd like to thank my mom, The Book Smugglers and most of all, Kat Kennedy!

If it weren't for my lovely co-blogger not knowing enough about my favs, she wouldn't be buying me a lovely stack of books.

Thankfully, I'm incredibly meticulous about shelving and she can easily refer back to that. Woo-hoo!

KAT KENNEDY: I dunno, I think I win. After all, I could easily start listing some special toys you want for Christmas.